Dear all,
before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage, but
realised that ‘nroff -man’ does not produce the same output as ‘man’ itself.
Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtools package.
With ‘man samtools’, users can see tables like the following one in the section
‘SAM FORMAT’.
┌────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Col │ Field │ Description
│
├────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ QNAME │ Query (pair) NAME
│
│ 2 │ FLAG │ bitwise FLAG
│
│ 3 │ RNAME │ Reference sequence NAME
│
(…)
But with ‘zcat /usr/share/man/man1/samtools.1.gz | nroff -man | less’, here is
what
I get.
center box; cb | cb | cb n | l | l . Col Field Description _
1 QNAME Query (pair) NAME 2 FLAG bitwise FLAG
3 RNAME Reference sequence NAME 4 POS 1-based leftmost POSi‐
The workaround I found was to copy the new manpage in /tmp/man/man1, and call
‘man -M /tmp/man samtools’. Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
manpage the same way as users will get it by using ‘man’ ?
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
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